ISBN10: 160606570X, ISBN13: 9781606065709, [publisher: Getty Trust Publications] Hardcover 2018. Translation. Hardcover. . . . . .
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2018]

Hardback. New. During the First World War, the bombardment of the cathedral in Reims, France, by German troops, was one of the most controversial events on the Western front. This fascinating publication examines the implications for the intellectual, cultural, and political relations between the two nations. ISBN 160606570x 9781606065709 [GB]

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ISBN10: 160606570X, ISBN13: 9781606065709, [publisher: Getty Trust Publications] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. During the First World War, the bombardment of the cathedral in Reims, France, by German troops, was one of the most controversial events on the Western front. This fascinating publication examines the implications for the intellectual, cultural, and political relations between the two nations.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2018]

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[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2018]

ISBN10: 160606570X, ISBN13: 9781606065709, [publisher: Getty Trust Publications, Los Angeles] Hardcover Hardcover. As the site of royal coronations, Reims cathedral was a monument to French national history and identity. But after German troops bombed the cathedral during World War I, it took on new meaning. The French reimagined it as a martyr of civilization, as the rupture between the warring states. Despite a history of mutual respect, the bombing of the cathedral caused all social, scientific, artistic, and cultural ties between Germany and France to be severed for decades. The resulting battle of words and images stressed the differences between German Kultur and French civilisation. Artists and intelligentsia caricatured this entrenched cultural dichotomy, influencing portrayals of the two nations in the international press. This book explores the structures breadth of meaning in symbolic, art historical, and historical arenas, including competing claims over the origins of Gothic art and architecture as national style and issues of monument preservation and restoration. It highlights how vulnerable art is during war, and how the destruction of nation-al monuments can set the tone for international conflictonce again a timely and pressing issue. Thomas W. Gaehtgens articulates how these nations began to mend their relationship in the decades after World War II, starting with the courageous vision of Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, and how the cathedral ...